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'Now I am a mother and a married woman but not long ago I led a life of crime': so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager - 'our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us' - she drops out of school gets a crappy job sees a terrible brightness at night and drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment and plot a strange crime Bianca learns she can drift lower ...Electric and tense with foreboding with its jagged propulsive short chapters beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer A Little Lumpen Novelita - one of the last novels Roberto Bolano published - delivers a surprising fractured fairy tale of taking control of one's fate.